Search the IGI with Ancestral
Quest!You can update your files while
looking at the information from the familysearch.orgwebsite.You will have to have your Ancestral Quest
program open to use this function.We
recommend that you reduce this program in size so that when you log onto the familysearch.org
website, you will be able to view the ordinance information and then add this
vital information to your own family files.As you go through this tutorial, we take you step by step through
setting up and conducting your research using Ancestral Quest.Once you become familiar with this process,
the actual searches will be very quick.So let’s get started!

The General Steps for this process
are:

1.Get your screen set up to effectively
use the program and the web side by side.

2.Use Ancestral Quest to locate an
individual or marriage and initiate a search on the IGI.

3.Examine the results at the LDS website.

4.Update your own family files with the
new ordinance information.

5.Go back to Step 2 and repeat till done.

As
you get started, we recommend that you arrange your programs on your computer
screen like this for convenience in both viewing information and adding new
information.If you would like a
tutorial on how to do this, CLICK HERE.

Note: If you have a low
screen resolution, you may have to overlap the programs to be able to read them
clearly.In this guide, we are using a
lower resolution of 800 x 600, so the screens are overlapped.

Step 2)(Optional
)Once your Ancestral Quest program is
open, we suggest that you reduce the size of this program on your screen.This will make room for you to view the
results for your ordinance searches on familysearch.org.(Don’t reduce it to where you can’t read it easily.)

Step 3)You are now ready to search for
information from the online IGI!At
this point you need to determine which kind of event you want to search for: an
individual, a marriage or children from a marriage.As you look in your family files in Ancestral Quest, make your
selection.Use the “Pedigree”, “Family”
or the “Name List” views.For the
purpose of this tutorial, we will search from the “Family” screen.Now locate the individual you wish to search
for.In the example below, we selected
“Thomas Banks.” (RIN 1048)

Step 4)To view the
“Edit Individual” screen for this individual, double-click with your left mouse
button.In the lower left hand corner
below “LDS Ordinances” is the “IGI” Button (2).Click it to initiate
your search.

*Please
note that depending on your preference settings, you might have the LDS
Ordinance section on a Tab that says “LDS”. (1)

Step 5)This is the “Search FamilySearh.org”
screen.Let’s take a look at what is on
this screen.All the information on
this individual as well as options to change the type of search are available
here.Sending the “surrounding”
information on the individual search allows for better results.

Step 6)If you are not already connected to the
Internet, click on “Connect to Internet” to go online.Note that this button is currently “grayed-out” as we are
already connected to the Internet in this lesson.

Step 7)Once you are
connected to the Internet, click “Sign On to IGI”. This will bring you to the
“Sign-On” screen for the familysearch.org.(If you have already signed onto the IGI during this
Internet session skip this step and go to step 8.) You
should only sign on onceper Internet session.

NOTE: You don’t have to sign on to do
genealogical searches.You just won’t
be able to view the LDS ordinance information unless you have signed on.

***If
you don’t have a sign on ID, you will need to contact your ward clerk for this
information.This guide presumes you
have already received this information and you have already established an ID.

Step 8)(Optional) At this
point, you will be brought into the familysearch.org main screen.We
suggest you position the familysearch.org screen on the left like this.To begin your search Click on “Search IGI”.

Step 9)This will
activate the search on the IGI which will bring up the “Search Results
page.”Compare the information in the
IGI results page against the information in your own family files.If it looks like you have found a matching
person, you can now close the “Search IGI” screen by clicking on “Close” button
to bring you back to the “Edit Individual” screen to update your own
files.IF YOU DIDN’T GET A MATCH, CLICK HERE.

Step 10)Click on the match, “Thomas Banks” on the
“Search Results” screen in order to view the additional information that you
can add to your own files.Click on
your “Edit Individual” screen to add this new information to your family
files.If the “Edit Individual” screen
is covering the information, put the cursor in the title bar of “Edit
Individual”.While holding the left
mouse button down, move this screen to the right so that you can still see the
results of the Ordinance Records.Now
you can update this information by typing it, or by copying and pasting the
information from the IGI results screen into your own files.

Step 11)Click on “Save” to save your changes.If you can’t see the “Save” button, put the
cursor in the title bar “Edit Individual”, holding the left mouse button down
and move this screen to the left so that you can see this button.

Congratulations! You have just completed your first IGI
Individual update with Ancestral Quest.